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Drug Addiction: The Secret Liar
Drug addiction has become a modern social problem that affects all things of a person's life. Addiction can be remedied through intensive drug rehab clinic programs and counseling. But to understand how these programs can help an addict to the road of recovery, it is vital to know how drugs work on the brain and the nervous system.
A human's nervous system is basically comprised of two types of cells, the glial cells and the neurons. Glial cells are responsible for the brain's health, getting rid of waste, and distributing nutrients to other parts of the system. They also comprise the blood-brain barrier, which enables nutrients to pass through while keeping toxic chemicals out. However, a psychoactive drug, because of its chemical makeup, can trick the glial cells so it can dissolve in the brain's bloodstream. Thereafter, the drug affects the neurons.
Neurons, the other component of the nervous system, are highly specialized cells that analyze and transmit neural data through a complex electro-chemical mechanism. They send a set of electro-chemical signals that enables a person to feel pleasure, pain, happiness, joy, and virtually all feelings or emotions. All in all, a healthy individual has over 100 billion neurons, interacting with each other and having an effect on other neurons.
So how does neural interaction relate to drug addiction? Well, imagine that a doctor administers an anesthetic, a drug, to dull the pain for a minor surgery. The anesthetic prevents you from feeling pain by hindering the signals that allow you to feel pain. Therefore, you are fooled into thinking that cutting off your skin is painless since the neural vehicle that transmits the pain information is blocked.
Different psychoactive drugs have different effects. For example, some give you a nice feeling of euphoria, and some seem to erase problems. This false feeling makes you wish for more. The more drugs you take to compensate for that want, the more your nervous system's chemistry is altered. Your brain is made to believe that normal functioning only happens with the drug. When you lose control over your want for such enjoyment, when you lose control over your reasoning and your actions to get such enjoyment, then you are afflicted with addiction.
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